Sharp County record., 1887-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

pairing to tally-ho through luo oOO'NA
highlands.
Boor and shoe retail dealers began
National convention at Chicago on the
18th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM journeyed TO Gasteln
on the 10 h. He said his health was much
improved.
THE President and party visited
Fayetteville, n. Y, on the 18th, and lett
for Washington at night
The royal assent was given on the l9th
to the Irish Crimes Act Amendment Dill,
and it became law.
FRANK BRECKLER, fireman, was killed
in a collision on the Atlantic q Paclnc
railroad near Peach Springs, Ariz, on the
10th.
Mr.. BLAINE made speech at the laying
of a cornerstone to the memory OF an olu
Scotch King on the 10Th.
A FRENCH custom officer named Ritter
at Pagny- Sur-M Moselle was stabbed on the
10Th in quarrel by a German commercial
traveller named Auderbe. The latter was
arrested.
FROM information received at the Navy
Department, it is believed that the United
States steamer Vandalia has arrived at
Honolulu, o. will do so in a few days.
DISPATCHES have been received at the
Department of State from the U nlted
States Minister to Belgium announcing
that the government Of that country has
increased the duty on cattle, coffee and
meat, and that after January next meat
will not be permitted to enter Belgium
except in the form of whole animals and
halves and fore-quarters Of animals, and
then only when the lungs are attached.
THE Business Educators Association OF
America opened its ninth annual session
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 18th. Fresl-
dent Sadler delivered the opening ad-
dress. About seventy-hve delegates were
present representing most Of the promi-
nent business colleges Of the country
TIE Mexican war veterans OF Boston
and vicinity held reunion on the 18th at
Nantasket Beach. There were thirty
four veterans present. Oficer8 we're
elected and a resolution Of thanks to A,
M. Kennedy, of Washing gton, for his ef'
forts on behalf of the Mexican war vet
erans was adopted. A banquet closed the
reunion.
A WOMAN has been arrested in New
Brunswick charged with numbering
three of her children.
THE Secretary of State has received,
through the German Minister at Wash
ington, from the Emperor of Germany
check for $1,000 and two gold watches
embellished with the likeness and mono
gram of the Emperor, with request that
the money be divided equally among the
families Of the five members of the life
saving crew at Dam Neck, Mills Station,
Va, who lost their lives in attempting to
rescue the crew of the German ship Eliza
beth, on the Sth day OF January last, and
that the watches he presented to Frank
Tedford and Joseph E. Etherldge, the
only survivors of the life-saving crew.
THE President and party arrived at
Wash gton on the Goth.
Mr.. BLAINE's health is reported to be
very bad in Scotland.
BARON SEILLERE has been released from
the French asylum in which he has been
confined for several months.
ANOTHER revolution IS imminent in Bull
garia The army threatens to proclaim
the deposed Prince Alexander King.
THE Park Hotel at Billings, Mont, was
destroyed by fire on the Goth, caused by
the explosion of a lamp. Loss, Sl7,5OO;
insurance nominal
THE great fire at the Standard OIL
Works at Cons table Hook, N. j., on the
Goth, was got under control after two
large warehouses, three immense tanks,
four big docks and over 1000 barrels OF
oil were destroyed; loss, 81, 100000.
THE effects of the recent strike on the
Brooklyn Elevated road have all disap-
peared, and trains are running on old
schedule time. OF the seventy m en- who
quit work on an hours notice, sixty
eight, Colonel Martin says, have filed ap-
plications for reinstatement.
BRIGGS SwIFT's old porkhouse in Gin
cinnati, which was recently remodeled
for manufacturing purposes, was burned
on the goth, involving loss of $50 OOO.
The fire started in the ice-cream freezer
factory of the Gooch Freezer Company.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD gave a
hearing on the Goth to representatives of
importers of Sumatra tobacco and OF
growers Of domestic leaf tobacco in re
gard to the general question as to the
proper method Of determining the du'
table value of Sumatra tobacco.
THE cotton worm is said to be doing
great damage to the crop in Egypt
SHERIFF MoNELL, of Chadron, Neb., on
the goth, arrested in Omaha young
woman named Maggie Lovletts, on q
charge of being an accomplice in the
murder and robbery Of a man who lived
in a cabin q short distance out OF
Chadron. The alleged principal in the
crime is a man named Thompson.
Hon. ASA P. GROVER, relative Of
President Cleveland, and in whose honor
the President received his given name,
died at Georgetown, KY, on the Goth,
aged seventy-fve years. He was born in
Ontario County, N. Y. and moved to
Kentucky in 1S4Z He was member OF
the Forteth Congress from the Fifth
Houisville) district of Kentucky.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury
received a telegram on the Goth from
Captain Sheppard, commanding the
revenue steamer Rush, dated at Ouna.
laska, July 5, confirming the press dis
patches in regard to the seizure Of the
British steam schooner Annie Brown and
the American schooner Challenge for il
legal sealing.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has sent out cir.
cular letters to the steel manufacturers
of the United States, notifying them that
the department has decided to postpone
until Septem ber 20 the opening Of pro-
posals for the furnishing Of steel cast
guns for the navy. This action is take n
in order to give more time to domestic
manufacturers to consider the matter.